I’m planning to earn the money many ways, including through this blog. With my new BlogHer contract and ads from a few other sources, I earned over $125 in December. My goal for January? Double it!

How do I plan to do this? Awesome writing, mostly. And being open to cultivating advertising contracts.

I don’t intend to sacrifice content or aesthetics (at least, as far as my aesthetic eye will take me…it’s much better with fabric than blogs). This blog is mostly a place where I learn about personal finance and share that with others. I didn’t get started to make money. But as a PF blogger in debt, I think it’d be irresponsible of me not to make some money off it. We’re all about developing multiple income streams.

Other ways I’ll be increasing my earning power include: new library job starts this Thursday; planning to spend more energy hunting for freelance work (project I was working on in Dec is coming to a close); building a personal website as a writer/editor (no, you can’t see it); working at UserTesting.

They sound like reasonable goals. I hope they all come to pass, and then some.

Mine are to figure out how to make my new blog work; probably to move it to a different hosting site and convert to better software; and to build readership. Someday I’d like it to make a little money, but that doesn’t seem realistic yet.

Meanwhile, my 2008 financial goal is to salt away $10,000, putting as much as possible in my Roth IRA and the rest in a conservative Vanguard fund by a) saving $250 a month out of my salary and b) netting $3500 a semester teaching online courses.

Over the next three years, I need to build an enterprise that will reliably net $12,000 a year, the amount Social Security and my savings will fall short of supporting me when I retire. I want to retire at 65 (well…66, in my cohort), but to do that I need a home-based business that does not depend on landing underpaid teaching contracts and that provides a more predictable income than freelance editing or writing.

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